Installing a drive blank................................................................................................................................................ 40
Removing a drive carrier.............................................................................................................................................41
Installing a drive carrier.............................................................................................................................................. 42
Removing the drive from the drive carrier............................................................................................................ 43
Installing a drive into the drive carrier....................................................................................................................43
Removing a 2.5-inch drive from a 3.5-inch drive adapter.................................................................................44
Installing a 2.5-inch drive into a 3.5-inch drive adapter.................................................................................... 45
Removing a 3.5-inch drive adapter from a 3.5-inch drive carrier................................................................... 46
Installing a 3.5-inch drive adapter into the 3.5-inch drive carrier................................................................... 47
Optical drives and tape drives........................................................................................................................................48
Removing the optical or tape drive blank.............................................................................................................. 48
Installing the optical or tape drive blank................................................................................................................ 49
Removing the optical drive cage or tape drive.................................................................................................... 50
Installing the optical drive cage or tape drive....................................................................................................... 51
Cabled drives......................................................................................................................................................................52
Removing the internal hard drive bay.....................................................................................................................52
Installing the internal hard drive bay.......................................................................................................................53
Removing a cabled drive............................................................................................................................................54
Installing a cabled drive..............................................................................................................................................55
Drive backplane................................................................................................................................................................. 56
Drive backplane guidelines........................................................................................................................................ 56
Backplane cable routing.............................................................................................................................................59
Removing a hard drive backplane............................................................................................................................ 61
Installing a hard drive backplane..............................................................................................................................62
System memory................................................................................................................................................................. 63
System memory guidelines .......................................................................................................................................63
General memory module installation guidelines....................................................................................................65
Mode-specific guidelines........................................................................................................................................... 65
Removing a memory module.....................................................................................................................................68
Installing a memory module.......................................................................................................................................68
Cooling fans........................................................................................................................................................................ 70
Removing the internal cooling fan...........................................................................................................................70
Installing the internal cooling fan............................................................................................................................. 70
Removing the external cooling fan ......................................................................................................................... 71
Installing the external cooling fan............................................................................................................................ 72
Optional internal USB memory key............................................................................................................................... 72
Replacing the optional internal USB memory key................................................................................................72
Expansion card holder...................................................................................................................................................... 73
Removing the expansion card holder......................................................................................................................73
Installing the expansion card holder........................................................................................................................73
Expansion cards................................................................................................................................................................. 74
Expansion card installation guidelines.....................................................................................................................74
GPU card installation guidelines...............................................................................................................................75
Removing a expansion card...................................................................................................................................... 75
Installing an expansion card...................................................................................................................................... 76
M.2 SSD module................................................................................................................................................................ 78
Removing the M.2 SSD module............................................................................................................................... 78
Installing the M.2 SSD module..................................................................................................................................78
Optional MicroSD or vFlash card...................................................................................................................................79
Removing the MicroSD card.....................................................................................................................................79
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